BeamLR Part Images Preview

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00:00 Part Images Preview
01:56 Quality Comparison

This is a short preview of the part images coming to BeamLR as a new addon zip file. These make it much easier to customize vehicles without having to use freeroam to see what parts look like before buying them. The addon will be released alongside 1.14.3 update which adds needed UI changes to handle the part images, including a new UI app to view the full sized images which is opened by clicking on thumbnails.

Archives containing over 9000 (literally) individual images will be made available in three different formats:

- Low Quality JPG Files (144 MB)
- High Quality JPG Files (433 MB)
- Max Quality PNG Files (846 MB)

The low quality JPG files do have some compression artifacts, a comparison can be seen at the end of the video. Differences are hardly noticeable at thumbnail size but will be more visible on full size images when viewed in the UI app. The high quality JPG files should be the best compromise between file size and quality for most players.

Creating part images for all vanilla cars currently available to buy in BeamLR has been a month long process involving custom BeamNG lua scripts (to loop through available parts and take base screenshots) and C# scripts (to crop the images and encode them to various quality levels) which should be made available eventually for players who wish to do the same for modded vehicles.